Last summer, the country waited with bated breath and a united desire to see if the mother of poor, sweet little Caylee Anthony would be convicted of anything in the disappearance of her daughter.

As scenes from the courtroom trickle out in reference to the sadly misguided young man who terrorized a movie theater in Aurora, Colo., several months ago, people eagerly watch to see what will happen.

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Today would have been my mother’s 88th birthday. Surely, she isn’t a day over 45 or maybe 50. Well, alright, perhaps 60. But it really doesn’t matter. Mama died in early 2005. She was 76.
My mother was born in Topeka, Kansas, in 1928. It was the year Ty Cobb hit his 4,191st and final career hit, that Mickey Mouse made his screen debut and that Calvin Coolidge tersely announced he would not seek a second full term as president.

Nobody’s ever quite known what do with the Louisiana Tech and Grambling State University lab schools. They’re not totally public schools, and they’re not totally private schools, either.
A. E. Phillips and Alma J. Brown Elementary, Grambling Middle School and Grambling High School are a bit of a breed apart. Laboratory schools — both here and elsewhere — were designed for teacher education students to have a place to practice teaching.

Lab schools had smaller classes and were generally looked to as the think tanks for cutting edge classroom strategies. To some extent, that’s still true.

On Veterans Day, Americans honor all American veterans, both living and dead, for their sacrifices in protecting the greatest country in the world.

At exactly 11 a.m., each Nov. 11, a color guard, made up of members from each of the military branches, renders honors to America’s war dead during a heart-moving ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknowns in Arlington National Cemetery.

The president or his representative places a wreath at the tomb and a bugler sounds Taps.